Construction sector has too many suits, not enough tradies
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Ross Elliott of The Pulse wrote an outstanding article about the administrative bloat that has enveloped Australia’s planning industry.
Elliott notes that lawyers he has spoken with told him “they didn’t really know how many [planning-related] pages of rules and regulations were now in force—just that it would be so many as to be impossible to count”.
The Planning Institute of Australia advocates for more town planners rather than reducing red tape. Elliott believes it is a waste of human intelligence for a university-educated town planner with a HECs debt to focus on mindless administrative tasks.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.